Hearing Ying Zheng say this, Li Xi was first slightly stunned, seeming a bit unable to react as to why the topic had suddenly shifted from Zhao Ji to herself.
She blinked those beautiful peach blossom eyes and said with a bit of inexplicable confusion, “I… never thought about getting married at all.”
Afterward, it was as if her mind finally returned, and she sobered up, speaking righteously, “I am Qin’s divine maiden.”
Leaving her current high position to go get married and lower herself, forcing herself to produce some so-called “father” whom she would need to hold up, respect, and pamper — she was not crazy.
Anyway, it was impossible for her to be with… so it was better to just maintain the current situation.
Hearing Li Xi’s answer, Ying Zheng seemed not to have expected her to say this and was also slightly stunned for a moment.
Then, looking at Li Xi’s face with a faint smile, he said calmly, “So be it.”
However, what exactly this sentence referred to was something no one could know.
Li Si was going on a mission to Zhao, and with the long journey, naturally he needed to pack his luggage a bit. Watching her own elder brother packing things into the suitcase that he had previously almost carried while running away to Han, Li Xi pondered for a moment, feeling that something seemed to be missing.
After a while, just as Li Si had finished packing and was about to close and seal the suitcase, Li Xi finally remembered what was missing. Then she saw the tall girl run a few steps, return to her own room to get a dagger, then come back to Li Si and throw the small, exquisite dagger — which looked like a toy but was in fact extremely sharp, even capable of cutting iron like mud — into her elder brother’s luggage.
After completing this action, Li Xi said, “Bring a weapon for self-defense. If something happens in Zhao, at least you can block it.”
Li Si: “……”
Looking at his younger sister speaking so seriously, Li Si suddenly felt inexplicably complicated. On one hand, he knew this was his sister showing concern for him — if she did not care about his life, who would do such a thing? But on the other hand, it was very subtle… Although preparing in advance was fine, his sister’s preparation was a bit too far-reaching, wasn’t it?
Suppressing the faint desire to complain in his heart, Li Si thought about it and felt he should also give his sister some advice, because this time he was truly worried that something might go wrong between his younger sister and the King. Unexpectedly, just as he carefully opened his mouth to speak, he heard Li Xi say that after he left, she would return to Liyang, so he immediately set aside the worry in his heart.
He thought that in this way, during this period, nothing particularly dangerous should happen. Naturally, this danger specifically referred to physical danger.
On the day Li Si secretly left Qin for Zhao, Li Xi likewise boarded a carriage with her specially assigned little follower Cheng Jiao and prepared to return to Liyang.
However, before going back, Li Xi once again specially entered the palace to see Ying Zheng and gave him a small gift concerning the hard battle that was about to be fought.
— A bag of flour.
Watching Li Xi mysteriously open the oil-paper package containing flour as if it were some rare treasure, at that time Ying Zheng and Cheng Jiao, the two brothers, one big and one small, were both somewhat confused.
Then Li Xi performed an “explosion magic” for the two brothers.
In order not to damage the precious buildings in the palace, and also for the safety of the three of them, Li Xi specifically asked the two brothers to take her to a more desolate and open area in the palace with few buildings.
After arriving at a suitable location, under the bewilderment of the two brothers, Li Xi scattered the bag of flour in a circle on the ground. Then she asked Ying Zheng and Cheng Jiao to retreat farther away. After confirming that the two of them had entered an “absolutely safe” distance, Li Xi expressionlessly lit a fire on the floor on the ground.
Boom —
In just an instant, accompanied by a thunderous explosion sound, flames filled the sky before the three of them, and then amid the bright red flames and billowing dust, Li Xi turned to look at Ying Zheng and said, “How is it? Do you like this gift, A Zheng? When I demonstrated it, I only used a little flour. If used in large quantities…”
She did not continue speaking, but everyone present, whether Ying Zheng or Cheng Jiao, could understand what she meant.
Bringing flour to the battlefield would become a weapon with extremely great lethality.
Li Xi originally intended to make gunpowder, which could effectively and rapidly enhance Qin’s military strength and also advance the development of hot weapons in advance. However, although she knew how to make gunpowder, she was troubled by the fact that she could not find saltpeter in a short time — in a material-scarce ancient era, this was the disadvantage: slightly less common items were hard to obtain, but warfare was urgent and would not wait, so for the time being she had to change her thinking and temporarily use flour, which could also achieve an explosive effect and was relatively easy to obtain, as a substitute.
Although this was somewhat wasteful of grain, war itself was a large-scale, extremely money-consuming affair, so this little bit did not matter.
— After Qin’s soldiers beat the five states of the vertical alliance into submission, would they still lack this bit of grain?
Hearing Li Xi ask like this, Ying Zheng, who had just witnessed the flour explosion, glanced at her and said with a tone of admiration that revealed no emotion, “It truly is… extraordinary.”
Even Cheng Jiao, who always found Li Xi unpleasant, nodded, “This thing is indeed very powerful… No, wait —”
Then he seemed to suddenly realize something and involuntarily stopped speaking. He stiffly turned his neck, his eyes filled with shock, and asked Li Xi in a tone full of disbelief, “What did you just call my royal brother?”
At this moment, young Cheng Jiao could not help but suspect that his hearing had malfunctioned.
As for Cheng Jiao’s question, Li Xi only returned him a gentle, harmless-looking smile.
However, such a gentle and pleasant smile, combined with what she had just done, made the smiling girl seem even more dangerous and terrifying.
Thus, Cheng Jiao, who had long seen how terrifying Li Xi was when she took action, shamefully — no, sensibly — chose to obey.
After finishing the demonstration of the flour explosion, Li Xi truly had nothing else to do in Xianyang, so after greeting Ying Zheng, Li Xi directly, with a seemingly gentle expression, grabbed Cheng Jiao’s hand through her sleeve — in reality using quite a bit of brute force — and forcibly dragged her little worker away.
Cheng Jiao was very important.
Not only were so many pigs in Liyang waiting for him to raise them, but Qin’s gold mines were also waiting for him to bring people to dig them, and… well, she could also conveniently let Cheng Jiao do a few more things.
Li Xi happily arranged the little child laborer clearly in her heart, and with a conscience that did not hurt at all, she also wanted to find him even more things to do.
After all, by age standards, who was not a child laborer?
Li Xi was happy, but Cheng Jiao, who was being forcibly dragged along, was not in a good mood. However, he could not break free from Li Xi’s restraint, so the young boy could only put on a sour face, grumbling complaints about Li Xi nonstop along the way, until the moment he was stuffed into the carriage. It was as if he suddenly remembered something, and instantly became quiet.
“Li Xi.” The young boy, with an awkward face, rarely called her by her name instead of “demon woman,” and asked her in a somewhat low tone, “Did you… already know back then… so that’s why you said that to me?”
In his mind suddenly flashes what Li Xi had once said to him when she asked about his relationship with his royal brother, “I hope the prince can remember what he said today.”
Cheng Jiao suddenly realized that perhaps he really had to admit that Li Xi indeed possessed abilities beyond ordinary people, otherwise how could she have said those words to him at that time?
In response, Li Xi answered with a sentence that completely bypassed Cheng Jiao’s question and sounded unrelated, “I only hope the prince can maintain a childlike heart.”
“What the heck.” Hearing her say this, the young boy immediately turned his head away and muttered in his heart: even if Li Xi the demon woman really had true abilities, he still hated her!
And on the night when Li Xi and Cheng Jiao returned to Liyang, in Xianyang, among the royal relatives and nobles, there once again appeared a major “purge,” recreating the “grand scene” from shortly before Ying Zheng’s personal rule.
However, unlike last time, after this cleansing, there was no longer anyone who dared harbor disloyal intentions. Because everyone with other ideas had been killed without exception.
Oh, no, actually there was still one exception. That was the Dowager Empress Xia, who held the most honorable position in this attempt to depose Ying Zheng and establish Cheng Jiao.
Because her identity was extremely special — she was the former king’s mother and also Ying Zheng’s biological grandmother — Ying Zheng did not take her life. Instead, he replaced all the servants around her and expelled the Dowager Empress Xia from Xianyang, exiling her to Zhiyang, the place where the former king was buried.
Naturally, the public explanation was that the Dowager Empress Xia missed her son and therefore voluntarily proposed going to Zhiyang.
And not long after the Dowager Empress Xia, the current Dowager Empress Huayang, who still resided in the palace, voluntarily went to Yongcheng, which had once been the capital of Qin for the longest time.
From then on, within Qin, no one could restrain or check Qin King Ying Zheng.
On the second day after returning to Liyang, Li Xi quickly pulled together a small classroom. She was the teacher, and the only student was naturally Cheng Jiao, who was about to go dig gold mines.
Although she had previously roughly located the area where the gold mines existed, and Cheng Jiao could take people to that area to be a heartless gold miner, responsible only for working, after thinking it over, Li Xi still decided to teach Cheng Jiao some geography knowledge. Because she suddenly remembered that, in terms of geographic coordinates, the resources contained in Qin were not only gold mines, but also included many other important resources, such as coal and natural gas.
Whether natural gas could be used effectively in ancient times, she was not very clear for the moment, but she could be certain that coal would definitely be useful. So in order to avoid having to personally handle calculations of coordinates in the future, it would be better to take this opportunity to instill some geography into Cheng Jiao’s little brain. Then later, in similar matters, she could mostly throw them to the little child laborer.
Moreover, not only Qin — after Ying Zheng unified the world, the resources contained within the seven states would all need to be extracted. So nurturing the little child laborer early was a very cost-effective thing.
With such planning, Li Xi took out the map she had previously drawn and placed it in front of Cheng Jiao, signaling him to look at the numbers and letters on it that might appear as strange symbols to him at present. “I’ll first briefly explain: the W and E here refer to longitude, N and S represent latitude, and this 0° longitude line in the middle serves as the boundary…”
After half a day, Cheng Jiao, who had undergone Li Xi’s cram-style teaching, felt that he was about to forget how to write even the simplest two characters. But he could not beat Li Xi, resistance was futile, so he could only be oppressed into learning this ghostly new knowledge.
And Li Xi, this demon, was not only force-feeding him these ghost scribbles, but also required him to complete memorization and dictation, and then achieve understanding and mastery. She would casually draw a tic-tac-toe grid, write two numbers representing degrees, and ask him to judge, or give him problems involving large circles broken into quarters with messy symbols and numbers.
Cheng Jiao felt that life was truly too difficult. He just wanted to dig gold, enrich Qin, and contribute bricks and tiles to Qin’s future great enterprise of unifying the world. Why did he have to endure such pain and torment?
But although Cheng Jiao was extremely resistant in his heart to being conscripted by Li Xi and tormented by geography, because his combat power compared to Li Xi’s cheat-level strength was truly pitiful, he could not escape, so he could only work hard and strive upward.
Finally, after half a month of returning to Liyang, young Cheng Jiao welcomed his liberation — he finally passed Li Xi’s demonic “exam questions.” Throwing away the “tic-tac-toe grids” and “big circles” that had filled his mind during this period, Cheng Jiao proudly raised his head again, straightened his chest, and, stepping with a swagger that recognized neither kin nor kinship, led people to the area where the gold mines existed, to pan for gold for Qin’s wars.
However, it was worth mentioning that before he set off, Li Xi had also specially given him a range of longitude and latitude, asking him to find a way to match the numbers she gave with Qin’s actual positions.
According to Li Xi, “Anyway, you won’t be digging the mines personally. Since you’re so idle, you should find something to do.”
After half a month of teaching geography, Li Xi was completely too lazy to maintain even the last bit of gentle, refined demeanor in front of Cheng Jiao, so the young boy could only resentfully accept this task that he did not want to do at all.
But again, who told him he couldn’t beat Li Xi, this fierce woman?
And after Cheng Jiao left in “humiliation and burden,” Li Xi finally opened her system interface after a long time, took a look at the players’ situation, and checked their current progress.
Seeing Li Xi check in, the system immediately, very sensibly, reported to its host, 【Report to host, the players who entered in the second test have now successfully produced cement. Together with the first batch of players, they have applied for a piece of land with the Liyang Magistrate and are beginning their red brick plus cement self-built housing project. Every day, many common people go to watch, and those who are interested even lend them a hand. The players working on fertilizer production also have very good growth in their experimental fields, with high fertility — it looks like a great success! However…】
As it spoke, the system’s joyful report suddenly shifted, 【The glass production at the brick kiln is not going smoothly. They burn every day and fail every day. The players produce strange things every day, and on average several people die from blowing themselves up every day,】 At this point, the system’s voice suddenly rose, unable to hide its happiness, 【So in order to get more revival opportunities, they are now online for long hours every day, working very hard for you, host!】
Then the system specifically pulled up the players’ game forum and indicated for Li Xi to look —
【 Qin, help, how exactly do you burn glass! We clearly followed the materials, but why is the stuff we made so weird!】
【Day seventeen of burning glass in the game, I have died thirty times. Does anyone have any questions for me? (cat crying.jpg)】
【Cannot be said, have the silly fools succeeded today? No, they are still everyone’s source of joy.】
……
Scrolling down, almost several consecutive pages were full of discussions related to “Great Qin.” Among them, besides players wailing about how hard the tasks were and seeking ways to solve them, and silly netizens asking for third test access codes saying “I have a friend who will die if he doesn’t get a Great Qin registration code,” one particularly distinctive post caught Li Xi’s attention —
【Great Qin, about how I spent five days walking all over Liyang】
Let me show everyone the scenery of Liyang. Basically, I went everywhere that wasn’t restricted to players. I really have to praise the game modeling — the production is truly conscientious. Even if you casually walk into some corner, it’s still 100% full-dive, absolutely real, with no awkward clipping at all. Great Qin is truly my game of the year. Without further ado, everyone just looks at the pictures.
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1L
Holy crap, this texture! The realism is insane! If the OP hadn’t said it, I would have thought someone in Hengdian was filming a pre-Qin drama and specially set this up.
2L
Although “cannot be said” is a marketing account, I really have to admit the modeling is incredibly strong…
3L
Damn, a kind of plant. Can a game of this quality really be played for free?
4L
Someone who got into the second test here to say a word — it’s true. We can’t find any recharge or microtransaction channels in the game, which pissed off the whales who entered with us so much they nearly had heart attacks (quietly saying the whales are really bad). Also, in our game, dying and reviving requires contribution points. When we’re idle, if we want to unlock certain map areas or certain NPCs (like going to see the Liyang Magistrate), we also need contribution points. In summary, without contribution points, you can’t move an inch in the game. Great Qin really looks like he only wants to force you to grind and wants nothing else… Anyway, from what I’ve observed, this game is really friendly to poor players who can grind but can’t spend, although I don’t understand at all how Great Qin makes money without any monetization channels (maybe this is what they call generating power for love?). Anyway, I hope the official team can persist longer and let me freeload for a while (poor words, poor language.jpg).
5L
Oh, by the way, I don’t know if it’s just psychological, but I always feel that after working on cement in the game for several days, in real life my weak, useless self can now climb six floors in one breath without panting. Maybe this is just because the game is too addictive (panda head: adults’ complicated gaze.jpg).
6L
To be honest, I feel the same… Since moving bricks in Great Qin, my back doesn’t ache anymore, my legs don’t hurt anymore, it’s like I really could go work at a construction site.
7L
Although, playing games can be addictive — everyone’s an adult anyway — but the two brothers above, you two seem to… (want to speak but stop, stop but want to speak.jpg)
……
98L
After seeing the OP’s screenshots, I only have one thought: since the game production is so refined, why insist on doing that marketing-card routine? Right now, after reading reports, it really seems very good, but once I think about that overwhelming brainwashing-style promotion, I can’t help but feel discouraged.
……
291L
So when is Great Qin doing the third test? According to statistics, the number of players in the game right now seems to be less than five hundred. With so few people, does the official team really not consider quickly opening the third test? I grind really well!
292L
Me too…
293L
Me too! And I even have little pills to replenish my liver!
294L
…? What kind of wild words are you saying upstairs?
Li Xi quickly scrolled past this recommendation post. Basically, starting from the layer asking about the third test, everything afterward was a flood of people waiting for lottery entry into the game. In just a few short days, the reputation of “Great Qin” in the players’ world had changed quite rapidly.
The system asked, 【Many people are now asking for lottery entries. Host, should we open the third test?】
“I’ll think about it.” Li Xi pondered for a moment, then suddenly asked the system a question that seemed completely unrelated, “Can you now exchange for fast-growing, quick-maturing improved seeds?”
【Potatoes, sweet potatoes, sorghum, soybeans, corn?】 The system rapidly rattled off five names, 【Do any of these meet your needs, host?】
To this question from the system, Li Xi expressed that only children make choices, so of course she, “want all of them!”
Even according to the standards of the world she had lived in before, she was still a minor, but Li Xi still expressed her greed with righteous confidence.
Then Li Xi continued, pinching her fingers as she arranged the current players in Liyang: “Cement has already been made, and now a large portion of players have no major tasks, so the tasks of establishing a paper mill and its matching printing factory can be given to these players. In addition, it’s still summer now. When autumn comes, the cotton seeds I previously offered along with cotton plants that have already been planted will mature and will need to be processed, spun into cotton clothing and quilts, just in time for everyone to get through the winter. So another textile factory needs to be built, which can also encourage women and girls to come out to work and gain the confidence to support themselves… And since cement has already come out, road construction should also be put on the agenda.”
“All roads within the Liyang region must naturally be built. As for outside… first build the road between Xianyang and Liyang, to facilitate travel between the two, and also take this opportunity to open up new map areas outside Liyang for the players.” Li Xi said slowly, with a contemplative expression.
“Looking at it this way, let’s add two hundred people to the third test for now — temporarily, at least until the autumn harvest, these people will be enough.”
For Li Xi, just as in the eyes of the players, these local NPCs were all tool people, the players were also her tool people. They had two uses. First, they could be used to do high-risk tasks, or tasks involving life-threatening danger —
— such as the current brick kiln glass burning, where, because the诀窍 had not yet been found, explosions frequently occurred.
Second, because as “game players,” they could log out at any time, connect to the internet, and look up information — that is, they were walking “encyclopedias.” Although this included quite a bit of water, for tasks like papermaking, printing, and textiles that she planned to assign next, their ability to look up information would be sufficient.
After all, she did not only have these players under her to work — not everything required them to do it personally — but she could also mobilize skilled craftsmen from Liyang and even the entire Qin territory. For tasks that did not endanger personal safety and required the workers themselves to possess a certain level of skill, these could be handed over to common people with a craft.
【Received!】 Seeing Li Xi finish speaking, the system, having learned to capture the most critical points from its host’s words, immediately responded energetically, saying that this time it would definitely try hard to select some capable little lambs from the new applicant players to fleece.
“Oh, right,” before the system very efficiently cut its signal into the official website of “Great Qin,” Li Xi promptly stopped the silly system and said, “Don’t rush to update the website information yet. Wait until I have the Liyang Magistrate distribute the new tasks so that everyone there knows what the next main storyline will be, then go update it. That way, you might directly hook a few people who are professionally matched in these areas, making it more time- and effort-saving.”
【The host is wise! Host is mighty!】
As Li Xi’s words fell, almost the next second the system entered its praise mode, and Li Xi, already accustomed to this, added one last sentence, “Also release a notice: game upgrade loading installation package, server closed for one day. After the upgrade, players will be able to unlock the Xianyang map, and the livestream function will be unlocked at the same time. But they won’t be able to see the Ancestral Dragon, so give up.”
At the end, Li Xi suddenly complained after recalling how strong Ying Zheng’s attraction to those players would be.
The system recorded everything Li Xi said and loudly responded, 【Okay, host, rest assured, host, I am very reliable when handling matters!】
Li Xi: “……”
Hearing the system say this, Li Xi, who originally was not very worried, suddenly twitched her eyelids and inexplicably had a bad premonition.
After all, the silly system rarely went without making mistakes, and yet every time, this useless system itself possessed a confidence rarely seen in ordinary people.
And just as Li Xi in Liyang was arranging the players’ next tasks clearly, on the other side, Li Si, who had secretly gone to Zhao to meet Guo Kai, this great contributor to Qin in history, had also perfectly completed his mission.
Adhering to the iron principle of “There is nothing that money cannot settle; if there is, then it is because the money is not enough,” Li Si reached a perfect agreement with Guo Kai. Guo Kai would advise the King of Zhao not to use Lian Po. In this five-state vertical alliance attacking Qin, the most core strength was Zhao. As long as the King of Zhao firmly refused to use Lian Po, then this old general who had dedicated most of his life to Zhao on the battlefield would truly become “Lian Po is old.”
And Guo Kai truly had some tricks. Because he had once held a grudge against Lian Po, his sinister methods against him made Li Si want to slam the table in admiration.
After tacitly colluding with Li Si and receiving the heavy gift from this new Qin Chancellor, Guo Kai’s first action was not to immediately persuade the King of Zhao not to use Lian Po, but instead to deliberately take a small portion from the large amount of treasure Li Si gave him to bribe other ministers, letting them persuade the King of Zhao to agree to what the King of Chu had long been strongly urging. Meanwhile, he himself took leave at home for several days on the grounds of illness.
Then, on the day Lian Po put on his armor and went to court to meet the King of Zhao, Guo Kai, with his “illness gone,” finally began to exert his power.
As the favored minister of the King of Zhao, his words naturally carried a different weight from others’. Ten sentences from others might not be worth even one sentence from him in front of the King of Zhao. Thus, on that day, as soon as Lian Po entered the hall, Guo Kai went up to whisper to the King of Zhao, whom he favored, and began to settle old accounts, counting Lian Po’s faults. For the sake of what Li Si promised him — “These are just a deposit; once it’s done, Si will give you more treasures” — Guo Kai slandered Lian Po, truly turning black into white without sparing any effort.
Starting from the incident of bearing thorns to plead guilty with Lin Xiangru back then, he accused him of being jealous in character and intolerant of talent. Then he pushed all the blame for the defeat in the Battle of Changping onto Lian Po — if he had been able to persist in holding defensive fortifications, how could the Zhao army have suffered such heavy casualties in the end? What? You say that was the King’s order? When generals are in the field, they may disobey the ruler’s commands! As a general in charge of military affairs, shouldn’t you understand the battlefield situation better than the King? Anyway, in summary, all faults were Lian Po’s fault!
Then finally, regarding the most recent matter: when the King of Zhao had just ascended the throne, he let Le Cheng replace Lian Po’s position, and Lian Po actually dared to be ungrateful and angrily go attack Le Cheng, then defected to Daliang. “This is simply naked, blatant disregard for Your Majesty! How can such a person be entrusted with such an important position? What if he defects to Wei again — and this time directly defects to Qin — wouldn’t Your Majesty be utterly harmed by this traitor?”
Bang!
Guo Kai spoke passionately, stirring public indignation. In the eyes of the King of Zhao, he appeared as a loyal minister wholeheartedly thinking for him. Thus, the King of Zhao, who had only agreed to this matter because of the strong recommendation of the King of Chu and the advice of ministers in his own court, could not help but say, “Minister Guo truly speaks with reason…”
Hearing this from the King of Zhao, Guo Kai immediately pressed on, continuing in the manner of a minister worrying for his ruler, “And stepping back, even if Lian Po does not become a treacherous traitor again this time, Your Majesty, do not forget, previously you sent envoys to invite him back to Zhao — the message that was brought back…”
At this point, Guo Kai cleverly did not continue, but let the King of Zhao himself recall what the envoys had reported back to him. Sure enough, in the next moment, the King of Zhao’s face completely darkened, and then he swept his gaze downward and said coldly, “Lian Po is disloyal and unrighteous, ungrateful, a man who forgets his roots. How can he be worthy to serve as the commander of the five-state alliance army?”
Afterward, the King of Zhao’s words became increasingly sharp, harsh, and sarcastic. Just looking at how the other kings beside him were completely stunned, one could imagine how cutting his words were.
From the incident of bearing thorns to plead guilty in his youth, it could be seen that Lian Po was very proud. So under the King of Zhao’s such humiliation, although he longed to serve his mother state, with his proud heart, he was not someone who would endure such insults. Therefore, under the King of Zhao’s verbal attack, Lian Po directly removed his armor on the spot, using the simplest possible action to indicate that he quit.
Watching the scene of Lian Po being angered into turning and leaving, Guo Kai knew that the matter Li Si had entrusted to him was now completely done, and that all the treasures Li Si had brought… were now all his.
Thinking of this, a wave of pleasure arose in his heart. He did not want to care at all about any wars on the scene, and only wanted to return home to embrace those newly obtained treasures.
And when Li Si heard Guo Kai vividly describe what had happened at the scene earlier, Li Si wore a flawless business smile on his face and praised, “My lord is so favored by the King of Zhao — Li Si truly sighs at his own inferiority and envies greatly.”
But in his heart, he thought that with the King of Zhao’s character, he was doomed sooner or later.
“Not at all, not at all.” Guo Kai stroked these rare and precious treasures in his hands and was willing to exchange a few polite words with Li Si. He said, with two parts of longing in his tone, “Guo is merely an ordinary, mediocre person, not worth mentioning. If we speak of the most favored ministers among the seven states, that would still have to be Lord Longyang of Wei.”
Li Si: “……？”
Li Si was almost unable to maintain his business smile after Guo Kai’s earth-shattering words — after all, Lord Longyang was… those who understand, understand.
At this moment, he could not help thinking: what kind of heaven-chosen luck did Zhao possess, from ruler to ministers all being so indescribable — and yet the state had not fallen?